means both the pronouncement of a sentence and its execution—death. Sin, condemnation, and death may be self-evident, needing no proof, but Paul’s vocabulary regarding Christ’s work is no less conclusive. The Greek word rendered gift, charisma, does not mean, as it does in 1 Corinthians 12, the various manifestations of grace; rather, it concerns the work of grace already accomplished on the cross. Likewise, the word for justification, dikaiōma, is a cognate of Paul’s preferred term and means the